“Subject and Source,” Revisited

Last June I posted this on my other blog:

Two or three nights ago I heard this: “Subject (is the) same as the Source.”  I capitalized “Source” when I wrote it on the notepad I keep next to my bed, so it seems that I immediately understood it to mean something specific, even though I was half-asleep when I wrote it.

I’ve wanted to post the follow-up to that for a while, but I’m just getting around to it now.

Three or four months after hearing what I heard about “Subject and Source,” I’d moved down to Florida from up north, and I’d pretty much forgotten that I’d heard it.  One day as I was out driving somewhere with the radio on, scanning stations for a good song, I was “passing through” the area of the dial on which most of the Christian stations are situated.

Something made me stop at one of them (highly unusual for me).  Someone was giving a sermon; he was saying something about “Jesus Christ” being the “source of the revelation.”  He said it a couple of times, and then went on to say, “He is also the…”

At that point, kind of as a joke with myself (as I’d just remembered the “Subject/Source” thing as I listened), I blurted out, “SUBJECT!”

And that’s what he said–”Jesus is also the subject of the revelation”–meaning, I take it, the revelation of God as embodied by him.

I just laughed–clearly it was no coincidence; he was showing off (and making his point) yet again, in a big way.

To make things even better, the station got all staticky and started to faway right after that.  Clearly, he’d said what he’d needed to say (it just took him three or four months to get to it ).